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As supply of vaccine begins to exceed demand, Ochsner Health is making every possible effort to increase vaccine confidence and ensure doses are easily accessible to all residents. The New Orleans-based health system’s Innovation Health Podcast series provides in-depth discussions to address safety concerns among minority groups and specific patient populations.
In the podcast, “COVID Vaccines and the African-American Community,” Obinna Nnedu, M.D, an infectious disease specialist at Ochsner Medical Center, acknowledges the long-standing mistrust among the African-American community of the health care system and the federal government and its contribution to vaccine confidence. “One important thing is to understand the distrust, not to minimize it, not to downplay it … have a conversation with individuals,” Nnedu said. It’s important to respect people’s feelings and offer correct, accurate information to them about the vaccines, he added
The crowd was enormous, bigger than we ve ever seen, she said. Someone screamed and we turned around and saw just a flood of people running towards us. Someone said gun and someone said shots and people started saying they heard two shots, we never heard those two shots.
KLFYpublished video from the festival of when the stampede began, which can be seen below. When the crowd kind of ran off and everything, we locked it down, said
Cisco Gonzales, festival organizer. We looked for a gun, if someone had a gun, we searched people, but to clear the air there was no shooting, no gun found on premises.
My New Orleans
05/04/2021
Everybody’s heard that old joke: I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out. Still funny after all these years.
Well, here’s a new twist on the old saw: What if you went to the fights and a crawfish festival broke out?
Maybe you’ve heard the news. There was pandemonium abound on Saturday evening when not one, not two, but eight – count them, eight – altercations were recorded that night at the Louisiana Crawfish Festival in Chalmette.
It was the final scuffle, somewhere between 7 and 8 p.m., that lit up the carnival runway more than any of the swirling lights on the rides spinning above the crowd. In fact, video shows many folks were nearly clipped by the twirling arms of some of the rides.
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Several injured at St. Bernard Crawfish fest after stampede ensues
ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana (WDSU) The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office held a news conference Monday about an incident at the Louisiana Crawfish Festival on Saturday, and a shooting that occurred in Chalmette.
St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann said that, during the festival, there was an unproven claim of a shooting that caused widespread panic.
Pohlmann said deputies still aren’t sure how the incident started but said at the time of the incident there were reports of someone saying shots were fired and others saying someone screamed ‘gun.’